[Steve digests all of that, and he is not happy about it. He's not happy about any of this. And if you subscribe to the theory that floods and Mirror Barges and what have you are all real things, real universes, real possibilities of what could have been... he likes it even less.]

That sounds like it would have been tough, for anyone. Choosing between people you care about never ends well. Neither does not choosing.

[But he can imagine Stiles might not want to talk about that.]


So if all the wardens are pretty bad people, I don't suppose the inmates are good ones, on the other side?

[Yeah, he doesn't sound hopeful that that's the case, either. But he's only talked to wardens, mostly, about this kind of thing. And Mindy wasn't so forthcoming about the inmate situation over there.]